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Zariski topologies on groups

Group Theory 2010-01-06 v1 General Topology

Abstract

The nn-th Zariski topology on a group GG is generated by the sub-base consiting of the cozero sets of monomials of degree n\le n on GG. We prove that for each group GG the 2-nd Zariski topology is not discrete and present an example of a group GG of cardinality continuum whose 2-nd Zariski topology has countable pseudocharacter. On the other hand, the non-topologizable group GG constructed by Ol'shanskii has discrete 665-th Zariski topology.

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@article{arxiv.1001.0601,
  title  = {Zariski topologies on groups},
  author = {Taras Banakh and Igor Protasov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0601},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages

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